Total Words Word Definition * denotes word appeared on both Baron and Kaplan lists abate* to reduce in amount, degree or severity abdicate to renounce or relinquish a throne aberrant abnormal or deviant abeyance suspended action abject utterly hopeless, humiliating or wretched abjure to renounce on oath ablution act of cleansing abrogate to abolish by formal means abscond* depart secretly and hide abstemious* sparing in eating and drinking; temperate abstruse hard to understand; secret, hidden accretion an increase by natural growth acerbic sour or astringent in taste, harsh in temper acquiesce to comply, give in acrid sharp or biting to the taste or smell acrimonious caustic, stinging or bitter in nature adjoin* to be close or in contact with adjure to beg or command to counsel against something; caution; admonish warn; reprove to make impure by adding inferior or tainted adulterate* substances adventitious accidental artistic; dealing with or capable of aesthetic appreciating the beautiful affable friendly, courteous to increase in power, influence and aggrandize reputation aggregate gather; accumulate alacrity cheerful promptness; eagerness alleviate relieve a person unselfishly concerned for the altruist welfare of others amalgamate combine; unite in one body amatory of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking ambiguous unclear or doubtful in meaning the state of having contradictory or ambivalence conflicting emotional attitudes ameliorate to make better; to improve amity friendship; peaceful harmony something or someone misplaced in time; anachronism* an obsolete or archaic form analogous comparable absence of governing body; state of anarchy disorder any substance that promotes masculine androgen characteristics androgynous being both male and female animus hostile feeling or attitude anomalous abnormal; irregular

aversion; dislike any system or caste that separates people according to race lack of interest or emotion; uncaring; indifference the highest or most distant point renunciation of ones previous loyalty; a total desertion of ones religion, principles, cause, etc. glorification, glorified ideal pacify or soothe; relieve inform approval; praise, consideration acquire; take possession of for ones own use hard; strenuous to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously without guile; open and honest practicing self-denial; austere diligent, persistent, hardworking to make less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) to waste away; wither or deteriorate; the wasting away of body tissue make thinner daring; bold forbiddingly stern in appearance; severely simple and unornamented self-governing; independent assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact something one does in addition to a principle occupation boring; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clichd; hackneyed contradict; give a false impression warlike, given to waging war to express pity for kindly; doing good desiring to do good to others having a kindly disposition pertaining to or affecting two or both sides support; reinforce pompous in speech and manner ; using inflated language rude; insensitive grow forth; send out buds make shiny by rubbing; polish support; prop up to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms unpredictable; fickle; changing ones mind quickly and often to punish or criticize harshly agent that increases the rate of a chemical action; person or thing that causes action burning; sarcastically biting trickery; deception by means of craft or guile

contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule. unoriginal; obtained from another source to dry out thoroughly aimless; haphazard; digressing at random something that discourages; hindrance bitter scolding; invective split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) lacking or marked by a lack of selfconfidence; shy and timid. to spread widely or thinly wandering away from the subject inclined to delay or procrastinate someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic lament with music correct a false impression; to set right; to

free from error

mentally quick and observant; having insight not harmonious; conflicting defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve lack of consistency; difference separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts lacking genuine candor; insincere unprejudiced lacking coherence; separated at the joints eliminate from consideration; reject belittle fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar to divert or amuse oneself a lack of calm or peace disguise; pretend; to disguise ones real intentions or character distribute; spread widely; scatter (like seeds) disintegration; looseness in morals discord; opposite of harmony to expand by stretching; swell out purify; refine; concentrate vary; go in different directions from the same point strip; deprive a principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief; dogma provide written evidence a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal sorrowful, mournful sleeping; lethargic; latent sullen, gloomy to deceive; a person who is easily deceived deceitfulness in speech or conduct; doubledealing faulty or inadequate nutrition or development showing excitement; overflowing with

enthusiasm selective; composed of elements from a variety of sources effectiveness ; power to produce desired effect a dummy; a likeness or image, especially of a person. flowing out of impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness a sorrowful poem or speech draw out by discussion art of clear and expressive speaking adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others based on experience imitate; rival prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country weaken; to reduce in strength to produce, cause or bring about increase; improve a puzzle; a mystery short-lived; fleeting a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed a word or phrase characteristically used to characterize a person or thing calmness of temperament; composure lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth learned, scholarly, bookish hard to understand; known only to the chosen few admirable improvement of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics expression of praise, often on the occasion of someones death an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive pleasantness of sound worsen; to increase bitterness or violence to clear from blame; prove innocent abominable urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention urgent; requiring immediate action to set forth in detail projection; conjecture to show or feel triumphant joy joking (often inappropriately); humorous help bring about; make less difficult false; misleading brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or cringing

apt; suitably expressed; well chosen glowing ardor; intensity of feeling of a trust; held or given in trust droop; grow feeble; to decline in vigor or strength inexperienced reject; mock; show contempt for to arouse or incite prevent by taking action in advance irritable, peevish thrifty; economy continuous discharge of firearms or outburst of criticism useless; hopeless; ineffectual deny loquacious; talkative; wordy urge on overcharge pompous or inflated in language; bombastic; using high-sounding language sociable deceit or trickery without deceit easily deceived long, passionate, and vehement speech different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines of other origin; not originating in the body of the same kind exaggeration; overstatement affecting virtues or qualities one does not have one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions worship of idols; excessive admiration unchangeable injure; hurt without feeling; imperturbable; showing or feeling no emotion hinder; block impervious; not permitting passage through its substance calm; placid impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed quick to act without thinking incapable of being pacified understood but not stated burst inward to urge or press with excessive persistence to attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly a female lover not fully formed; disorganized; rudimentary; elementary lack of harmony; absurdity

soak thoroughly enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality hide away or cache; produce and release a substance incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government a piece of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig; a potsherd. doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined evidence supporting a point of view a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility worried; concerned sleep-causing; lethargy; marked by sleepiness having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious) colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism occurring irregularly a mark of shame or discredit to restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with to lay down as a condition of an agreement; require by contract dull; impassive; unemotional; lacking sensitivity marked with parallel bands; grooved pompous walk or supporting bar to conquer a writ requiring appearance in court to give testimony settle down; descend; grow quiet establish by evidence; verify; support an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule arrogant, haughty, condescending cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete to make humble and earnest entreaty hypothesis; surmise understood; not put into words silent, not talkative peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing capable of being held, maintained or defended holding fast; holding or tending to hold persistently to something marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan thin; rare; slim extended scolding; denunciation; harangue lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy winding; full of curves docile; easily managed or controlled going beyond ordinary limits